malkut
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Hello!
I 'm very happy right now and i want to share with u, because this forum was a great help for me and it kept me motivated. You guys are all awesome!
I 'm an IMG, graduated in 2005. I prepared step 1 for 6 months, at the begining studying 3-4 hours/day, and in the last month aprox 6-8 or even 10 hours/day, including week-ends.
Studied manly from kaplan lecture notes (it was an older edition -2002- but this exam is about concepts and it was ok). I also used BRS for pathology, and First Aid 2005 for the gross anatomy and pharm section. Did 2 readings, except pathology, wich i read only once (not enough time) .
I did q-book, after the first reading of every book, than , after i read all the books once , i did kaplan q-bank online, along with my second reading. the final review was with usmleworld questions. I also did Robbins pathology questions, after reading BRS pathology.
did NBME form 4, 1 month before the exam.
My exam was more like NBME and the USMLE cd and covered all areas and subjects. Still..i think i had more pharmacology and physiology. A lot of graphs from physio and pharm, a lot of drug interraction and adverse effects. Also, a lot of endocrinology, with thyroid diseases, ambigous genitalia and all sorts of diseases. little embryo and anat. Ethics, situations and "say this or that " ques.
Overall, the questions were 40-50% easy (guys, please read the basics and u will ace this exam!!!) , 5-10% never heard of, 10% tough and the rest was in between.
After 5 looong weeks i received the score report. It was a pass, with 241/97. Scored "higher performance " in all the subjects, EXCEPT, of course  , the great behavioral sciences, where i was borderline (not borderline personality i hope ).
Thanks again to all of you !!
Wish you all good luck with your study and tests and all the best!!!!
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| tessa g
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Congratulations to you Malkut!
Good job!
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| mohelgamal
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Congrats I waiting as well. may be I will get the dreadful letter in few hours.
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Step 1 - 241/97 , step 2 ck 246/99 step 2 Cs Passed, citizen, graduated from Ainshams Egypt excellent with honor, 6 month research, with 5 publications currently prelim surgery resident. .
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| malkut
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thanks, tessa and good luck mohelgamal
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| muzammil
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congrats malkut
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| muzammil
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best of luck for step 2. where r u from?
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| MRMAVERICK
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congrats
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| MRMAVERICK
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| malkut
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thank you all and good luck
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| abdo
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well the new kaplan q bank updated or not ? and what about ur opinon in usmleworld?
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| malkut
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i took the kap q-bank on line, the updated one.
about uw...i can only say that for me was a great review, because i couldn't stand to open those books again, and i think that it also raised my score with about 5 points in the two digits scale. Great questions with great explanations
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| jamdoc
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congrats
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| mytime
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Great going MALKUT. Congratulations.
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| mona1976
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u realy did great job and its realy a big score. Good luck for future
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| mona1976
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would u pls help me about immunology and micro? which books are good for both?
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| malkut
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thank you, guys
mona, i think kaplan's microbiology&immunology book is the best for this exam (concise and high yield stuff). If you want more infos u can try Appleton & Lange (extensive information, but not so easy to follow), but i strongly suggest you read kaplan and to add Appleton when u don't understand.
Good luck
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| abdo
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congratulationsi want to know the system of the nbme , how many questons are there , ppl say that there are 4 forms and every one costs a 50 $ i want to get accurate info from u adn did u do them all ?
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| drbcshah
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please post your important topics depending on your exam
High yield topics
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